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Next year there will be a international paleontologic congress about extinct trunk animals in France in the Auvergne. It's the idea that there should also be a book about that, to be ready at the the congress.
I've been asked to translate the manuscript for that actually, just like the previous one about Sabertoothed cats. The translation is in two stages actually. I substitute Dutch words with English words and then somebody else, a native tongue, will change that into decent English.
Not sure if this is the right forum as it is mostly about paleontology, the reseach to the flora and fauna of the geologic past. However, this is the first part of the prologue:
I've been asked to translate the manuscript for that actually, just like the previous one about Sabertoothed cats. The translation is in two stages actually. I substitute Dutch words with English words and then somebody else, a native tongue, will change that into decent English.
Not sure if this is the right forum as it is mostly about paleontology, the reseach to the flora and fauna of the geologic past. However, this is the first part of the prologue:
This book is about prehistoric animals, extinct giants also known as mega fauna, and more exactly about trunk animals or proboscideans using the formal taxonomic name for this order: Proboscidea. These were large land mammals of which we find fossil remains back on a daily basis. Often this are tusks, often considered the main symbol of these animals as well as the modern Elephants still living in the wild in Africa and mostly domesticated in India. But also molars and parts of the skeleton have been collected frequently. Even complete skeletons have been retrieved, consisting of hundreds of bones. The amount of remains in various places and their abundance and condition indicate that these animals have been plentiful here in a large time frame, up to millions of years, in the Tertiary and Quartenary Era of the geologic past. Many of these animals have also been found in the Auverge in the Haute Loire in France, some renowned locations are Vialette, Seneze and Chilhac. These names have an enthralling effect on many specialists because many thousands of fossils have been collected here over the years, which have found their way to the collections of the scientific institutes and museums.
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